The Corinthians: A photographic tribute to Kodachrome

Kodachrome has gone, and with it the colour palette of the mid-20th century. The clacking carousel slideshows that so brightly projected our earliest memories have made way for a new age of digital photography.

But in The Corinthians, a photo book by Ed Jones and Timothy Prus, more than 200 Kodachrome photographs have been brought together as a lasting reminder of the film stock of the last century.

The Kodak product was marketed, in the beginning, at women, who often took a central role in advertising. In 1893 the Kodak girl, a character embodying independence and travel, began to appear in publicity shots. As the Eastman Kodak company files for bankruptcy, we reproduce some images from history